逯 Surname

Surname Overview

The surname Lu is pronounced lù. It ranks 404th in the Song edition of the Hundred Family Surnames and was outside the top 300 in the 2007 national surname population ranking.

Reference: 姓氏起源 |百家姓——逯姓起源

Origins

Main Origins

The surname mainly has Ying and Mi origins. One branch came from the Qin settlement of Lu during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods and took the settlement name as its surname; another came from a Chu settlement in the Spring and Autumn period. A further account connects the surname with the sinicization of the Xianbei Bulugu clan during the Northern Wei.

Reference: 逯姓起源分布与家谱家族

Historical Records

Early Textual Records

The Fengsu Tong records Lu as the name of an ancient Qin settlement during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. The Lushi records descendants of the Chu royal clan who took a settlement name as their surname during the Spring and Autumn period.

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Commanderies and Clan Halls

Commanderies and Halls

The Lu surname's commanderies include Guangping and Linhe. Its hall names include Guangping, Linhe, Xiaozi, Yingchuan, Jingzhou, Dantu, Le'an, Jianyi, Yuzhe, and Taiwei.

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Migration and Distribution

Lu surname lineages of prominence were based in Guangping and Linhe. In the early Tang, Lu Sheng followed Chen Zheng and Chen Yuanguang into Fujian and settled there; he is recorded as an ancestor of Lu lineages in present-day Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan. During the Ming period, the surname was mainly distributed in Shandong, Zhejiang, Hebei, and Henan.

Reference: 姓氏起源 |百家姓——逯姓起源

Notable People

Historical Figures

Historical figures with the surname include the Western Han official Lu Bing, the Ming filial son Lu Xiang, and the modern literary historian Lu Qinli. Lu Qinli compiled the hundred-volume Xianqin Han Wei Jin Nanbeichao Shi; its ten-volume Sui Shi is described as a particularly comprehensive collection of Sui poetry.

Reference: 姓氏起源 |百家姓——逯姓起源